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7:45 PM ET, May 18, 2007

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Microsoft:
Microsoft to Acquire aQuantive, Inc.  —  Company details plans to build Internet-wide advertising platform for advertisers, publishers and ad agencies.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced it will acquire aQuantive, Inc., for $66.50 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $6 billion.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Pays $6 billion for aQuantive: Massive Ad Network Consolidation Is Occuring  —  Breaking: Microsoft is acquiring advertising network aQuantive, the parent company to Avenue A |  Razorfish, Atlas and DRIVEpm, for roughly $6 billion in an all-cash transaction, the company said this morning.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Microsoft Is Latest to Buy Online Ad Company
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Anything You Can Do, I Can Do With a Bigger Bag of Money
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Making sense of Redmond's $6 million buy
Discussion: paidContent.org
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
The New Vertically Integrated Media And Advertising Companies
Discussion: PC4Media
Jeremy Kirk / InfoWorld:
Update: Microsoft to buy aQuantive for $6 billion
Discussion: Neowin.net
Elinor Mills / ZDNet:
Quantifying Microsoft's biggest purchase ever
Discussion: CNET News.com
Sam Sethi / Vecosys:
Rumour: Google to buy Feedburner  —  I have just heard from a VERY trusted source that Google is buying Feedburner in order to get into the rapidly evolving RSS Ad market.  The delay in announcing the deal, I am told is solely due to the delay in closing out the DoubleClick deal.
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Valleywag:
Rumormonger: Google buying Feedburner for about $100m  —  On the surface, this looks like a straightforward story.  Google is tightening its grip on text advertising with the acquisition of Feedburner.  We've confirmed yesterday's speculation on the Mountain View search engine's latest deal …
Discussion: parislemon
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Now that Feedburner Story....  Every so often we hear about Chicago-based FeedBurner, the RSS remixer/syndicator is getting bought by someone.  This morning, Sam Sethi pointed out that Feedburner was in talks with Google.  Valleywag says they have a confirmation and the price range is in the $100 million ballpark.
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Launches Popfly: Mashup App Creator Built On Silverlight  —  Microsoft will announce the private beta launch of Popfly this morning, a new Silverlight application that allows users to create mashups, widgets and other applications using a very cool and easy to use web-based graphical interface.
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Rory / Channel 9:
Popfly  —  You probably haven't heard of it, but you're also probably going to start hearing a lot about it in the near future.  —  Popfly is being announced today - as I'm posting this, actually.  —  To keep it short and simple so you can get right to watching the video …
Ryan Stewart / The Universal Desktop:
Popfly - Mashup the web with Silverlight  —  Disclosure: This morning I announced that I'm working for Adobe.  While I haven't officially started, consider me an Adobe employee for all intents and purposes.  I have the disclosure statement at the bottom of the page, but I'll probably run …
Discussion: Beet.TV and Scobleizer
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Microsoft Popfly service does mashups
Johnmont / MSDN Blogs:   Why I Think Popfly is Cool  —  No product is complete without …
Direct2Dell:
Dell Tablet PC  —  There's been some chatter about a Latitude Tablet PC coming from Dell.  Check out what Jeff Clarke has to say.  —  View Video  —  Format: flv  —  Duration: 0:58
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Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:   Dell Latitude Tablet PC spotted on Dell's blog
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Facebook growing, but more roadkill coming?  —  Facebook is growing quickly, adding between 100,000 and 150,000 new users per day, the company tells us, with the highest growth rates coming from abroad.  —  Particularly noteworthy is its traction in Canada, where it has more than 2 million active users …
Discussion: Deep Jive Interests
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Nico Vera / Facebook Blog:   Oh Canada...  If you were to check out the Toronto, ON network page …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
House Dems: broadband isn't broadband unless it's 2Mbps  —  Saying that the FCC "has not kept pace with the times or the technology," Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) opened a hearing today into the FCC's methods for measuring broadband availability in the US.  The US lags in speed, availability …
J. Alex Halderman / Freedom to Tinker:
AACS Updated, Broken Again  —  We predicted in past posts that AACS, the encryption system intended to protect HD-DVD and Blu-ray movies, would suffer a gradual meltdown from its inability to respond quickly enough to attacks.  Like most DRM, AACS depends on the secrecy of encryption keys built into hardware and software players.
Discussion: Techdirt and Boing Boing
techPresident:
Who will be America's First TechPresident?  —  As we enter the 21st Century our country faces daunting challenges.  We must address terrorism, global warming, our failing healthcare and public education systems, our dependence on nonrenewable energy resources, and other looming issues.
Molly Graham / Official Google Blog:
Google Apps Partner Edition  —  From the beginning, we envisioned making Google Apps available to any organization that might want to offer this innovative set of services to its employees, customers, students, members, or any other associates of the organization.
BBC:
Global net censorship 'growing'  —  The level of state-led censorship of the net is growing around the world, a study of so-called internet filtering by the Open Net Initiative suggests.  —  The study of thousands of websites across 120 Internet Service Providers and found 25 …
Business Week:
Even Yahoo! Gets the Blues  —  CEO Semel's next turnaround task: Boost morale and keep employees from leaving  —  It was a bit of good news that Yahoo Chief Executive Terry Semel really needed: Following a lengthy search, the Internet company on May 15 hired a new chief financial officer …
 
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
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Joost's Deal Plans Hidden in PDF Presentation
Marcus Yam / DailyTech:
Nintendo Tops Hardware, Software Sales for April
Discussion: Neowin.net and TechSpot News
Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
YouTube star headed for TV reality show
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
New Copyright Alliance hopes to strengthen copyright law
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Smaran / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay to Launch YouTube Competitor
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Apple MacBook, MacBook Pro screens subject of class-action lawsuit
Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
Zango sues antispyware vendor PC Tools
Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
Fair Isaac Claims Pay-Per-Click Fraud Is 10% to 15%
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Firefox users lead the way in keeping up to date
BBC:
Yahoo 'censored' Flickr comments
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